The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-08
ON RAIL AND CROSsTIE.
Local and General Gossip in Railws
Circles.

lIOCdl ana NJ6QSIdl III halfway
Circles.
The "a o'clock system is to be adopted
throughout Japan.
Col H. S. Haines returned to Florida yes
terday after spending Sunday with his
family here
During the month of October the Louis
vile and Nashville handled 1850 freight
cars in Birmingham.
All the lines west of Chicago have com
menced the sale of 2000-mile tickets at the
low rate of &c. a mile.
The fast mail arrived on time yesterday,
the washout on the Wilmington and Weldon
railroad having been repaired
The copy for the new edition of the Bio
graphical Directory of the Railway Officials
of America is now in the printers hands.
The new edition will contain the names of
over 1000 railway officials.
The New Hampshire house of Representa-
tives has passed bill to compel the rail
ways in that State to sell unlimited mileage
tickets at &c. mile and fix the maximum
local passenger tariff at &c. a mile.
The Jacksonville and St Augustine road
shops will soon turn out an elegant parlor
car for that road, The parlor car "Gov-
ernor Perry" has been repainted and refur-
nished and in a few days will be in use.
The preliminary survey of the Roanoke
and Southern road. which is projected to
run from Roanoke, Va, to Atlanta, dis
tance of $50 miles, has been completed from
Roanoke to Salem and Winston, N. C.
The Montgomery (Ala.) and Florida rail-
road is in running order for fully forty-five
miles south of Montgomery. 1t goes
| through the heart of Montgomery county
and for considerable distance into Cren-
| shaw county.
The imports of iron and steel from Great
Britain this year have reached a surprising
| ly large aggregate in spite of the protective
duty. During the month of September
they amounted to 120,0S5 tons, against a.,
Ais tons for the corresponding month last
year and 3O,;7i tons in September, 1885.
Surveys have been completed for an ex-
| tension of the Raleigh and CASTOR railroad
from Henderson to Durham, n c., dis
tance of forty-tive miles, and a line is being
located from Franklnton to Durham. 1t Is
stated that construction will begin on one
of these lines within ninety days.
On and after Nov IS the Charleston and
Savannah railway will run fast through
train between Charleston and Young's
Island in connection with the steamer from
Edisto. The company now have the steamer
st. Helena running between Edisto and the
railroad at Young's Island, but there is now
no through train to Charleston, transfer
being made at RavenelS.
On the Mobile and Birmingham road be-
tween Mobile and Marion Junction, Ala,
| 10 miles of track have been laid this year.
working from both ends, leaving 80 miles
to be completed by January. The line in
cludes the old Alabama Grand Trunk road
from Mobile north to Bigbee bridge, 80
miles. The road will form a branch of
the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia.
a passenger who enters the wrong train
through mistake is entitled to protection
while in the train, and alighting from it,
Where the directions of the conductor of Il
train are within the scope of his agency, a
passenger, in alighJing from the train in
obedience to them, cannot he held guilty of
contributory negligence, although he may
receive an injury, unless obedience to such
directions exposes him to an obvious risk
which prudent man would not incur.
Where a passenger enters the wrong train
through his own mistaSe, and is carried
some distance beyond the station where he
entered the train, the conductor does not
bind the company by directions to the pas
senger rs to where he shall 20, and how lie
shall go, after alighting from the train, to
rectify his mistake, and secure passage on
the train he intended to take: for such direc-
tons are not within the line of the con-
ductor's duty. So held the Supreme Court
of Indiana in a recent decision.